Dota Kehr is a singer-songwriter from Berlin. She began playing music at a young age, busking in public markets. After she discovered a cassette tape of Elis Regina and Tom Jobim that was left by her Brazilian babysitter, an adoration of bossa nova music began which still influences her music today. Dota has gone on to produce nearly twenty albums, all self-published under her own record label Kleingeldprinzessin (“Pocket-Change Princess Records”). Her recording career was been broken up between living in Germany, Brazil and Ecuador. She has performed all over Europe, New Zealand and other parts of the world and has amassed a large following in the German-speaking music world and beyond.
On the Women of the World track, "Zeitgemäße Ansprache" (Current Address), a poem written by exiled German Jewish poet, Mascha Kaléko, Kehr duets with German singer Sarah Lesch. They ask powerful questions about how people manage to continue enjoying life while there is so much suffering in the world. "How is it that we still laugh / That we still rejoice with bread and wine / That we don't stay awake through the night / Pursued by a thousand cries for help?"
On her recently released song “Alguém” (Someone), Kehr is joined by her regular collaborator, Brazilian singer and songwriter Danilo Guilherme. Together, on Putumayo's Café Brazil, they sing about the power and comfort of love. “Someone who leaned on my body when I smiled / Brought vibrant colors / Sailing sounds, scents of lily / I realized it was my love / It was like the sun arriving this way / Bringing warmth, the comfort of love / That calms the flower in my garden.”
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